Thought Quotes

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

G. K. Chesterton

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Bernard Baruch

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Baudjuin

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Sara Teasdale

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Source Unknown

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Samuel Goldwyn

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Harry Lorayne

I thought so hard I got a headache.

J.D. Cobb

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

George Eliot

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

George Eliot

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Stephen King

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own

William Shakespeare

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Joseph Brodsky

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

Ambrose Bierce

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

Lewis H. Lapham

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha